Yemen's Houthis fire missiles at Saudi Arabia after strikes on Sanaa airport
Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at Saudi Arabia after airstrikes hit the airport in the capital, Sanaa, and a Houthi leader threatened a broader “siege” of the kingdom. The exchange marks a fresh escalation on Yemen’s front of a conflict that has increasingly drawn in Iran and its allies against the United States and Gulf states.
The move risks pulling Saudi Arabia more directly back into open confrontation with the Iran-aligned group, after years in which the two sides had largely held to an uneasy calm. It comes as the United States presses a campaign of strikes tied to fighting around the Strait of Hormuz, and the regional picture has widened well beyond the initial US–Iran clash.
For global markets, a reopened Yemen front raises the threat to shipping through the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s key oil and trade chokepoints, adding to the disruption already building around Hormuz.